Brussels, 16 October 2017 – Representative from Tax consult will be present at the Alliott Group 2017 Worldwide Conference in Sydney this week (18-21 October). Membership of Alliott Group and participation in the international association’s conferences form an integral part of our firm’s international strategy to ensure our clients have access to the services of other like-minded professional firms across the world’s major commercial centres.  

The Belgian program-act of 25 December 2016 foresees, as from the first of January 2017, in an extension of the scope of the Stock Exchange Tax (hereunder the “SET”) to the stock-market transactions processed abroad.

Which transactions are falling within the scope?

The actual purpose of the Belgian program-act of 25 December 2016 is to make the SET applicable to the stock-exchange transactions processed by a Belgian resident via an internet interface made available by foreign intermediaries.